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ESPOO, Finland, Aug. 1, 2019 (Press Release) -Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, has today published its sustainability targets for 2030. One of the company’s targets is to achieve fossil free mills by 2030 with zero fossil CO2 emissions. This ambitious target includes both emissions from the company’s own energy production (scope 1) as well as purchased energy (scope 2). Currently, 82% of the energy used at Metsä Board mills is fossil free.
Read moreESPOO, Finland, July 17, 2019 (Press Release) -Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, started the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process in May 2019 for the bioproduct mill planned to build in Kemi, Finland. The company filed an EIA programme in accordance with the Act on Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure with the Lapland Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centre). The environmental impacts of the bioproduct mill in Kemi have been assessed based on the EIA programme.
Read moreESPOO, Finland, July 9, 2019 (Press Release) -In the spring Metsä Board – part of Metsä Group – announced that its modular takeaway packaging, targeted at restaurants' takeaway services, was one of the seven winning concept ideas in the Helsinki Wholesale market area's innovation competition. The winners were able to enter a pilot phase which has now come to the end. The takeaway packaging, developed by the project group led by Metsä Board, is easily recyclable and made of Metsä Board's fresh fibre paperboard.
Read moreESPOO, Finland, July 2, 2019 (Press Release) -Metsä Board – part of the Metsä Group - has announced the start of a new WKL Common Stock Service to help streamline and enhance the order-delivery processes of white kraftliners in continental Europe.
Read moreSTOCKHOLM, May 28, 2019 (Press Release) -Metsä Board Oyj, the leading European producer of premium paperboards has awarded ÅF Pöyry with the pre-engineering services assignment for the recovery boiler rebuild project in Husum, Sweden. The assignment includes pre-engineering services as well as engineering services for the implementation phase, depending on the final investment decision made earliest in Q4/19 for replacing two existing old recovery boilers with one new recovery boiler, and the old turbines replaced with one new turbine.
Read moreSTOCKHOLM, May 27, 2019 (Press Release) -Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has awarded ÅF Pöyry with the pre-engineering assignment for new bioproduct mill, Kemi. The target for the ongoing pre-engineering project is to create conditions for building a bioproduct mill with an annual production capacity of approximately 1.5 million tonnes of softwood and hardwood pulp to Metsä Group’s current mill site in Kemi. In addition to pulp, the mill would produce various other bioproducts. This mill would be the biggest wood processing unit in the Northern hemisphere.
Read moreESPOO, Finland, May 27, 2019 (Press Release) -Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has signed an agreement with ÅF Pöyry on the pre-engineerings of Kemi bioproduct mill and Rauma sawmill. The contract was signed on 27.5.2019. ÅF Pöyry will provide Metsä Fibre consulting services for pre-engineering projects. Pre-engineering projects include, among other things, Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and environmental permit processes, main equipment contracts and investment proposals.
Read moreGOTHENBURG, Sweden, April 23, 2019 (Press Release) -WALLENIUS SOL is a new shipping company that will transport forestry products and other goods in a network covering the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Founders are the two shipping companies Wallenius and Swedish Orient Line, SOL. It’s an investment to strengthen the infrastructure for the needs of Finnish and Swedish industry. The first customers to sign long-term agreements are Stora Enso and Metsä Board.
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